Report On Search For Sanskrit MSS Year 1882 1883

SR No.: 020607
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: R G Bhandarkar
Publisher: Government Central Book Depot
Publication Year: 1884
Total Pages: 235
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 10 MB

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prince of the Ráthor family who reigned at Jodhpur from 1532 to 1583 A.D. Chandrakirti who was honoured by Salem Shah was our author's teacher; (MM., Appendix II.).
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C. Plays. No. 418 is a copy of the first act of the Karpuramañjarî, a dramatic Karpûramanjari. play in the Prakrit in four acts, and No. 419 of the second act. In the colophon of both manuscripts the play is ascribed to a Vâchanâcharya, pupil of Jinasâgara, who is styled the sun in the sky of Kharatana.' Jinasagara was the first High-priest of a new branch of the Kharatara sect which was established in Samvat 1686 or 1630 A. D. (Ind. Ant., Vol. XI., p. 250). The Karpuramanjarî, however, of which we have two acts here, is the same as that written by Rajasekhara, the preceptor of Mahendrapâla, who flourished about the tenth century, and even his name is mentioned in the introduction.
Merutunga's Bhoja
prabandha. Bhoja's
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D. Historical, Biographical and Legendary Works. -Among works of a historical, biographical, and legendary nature we have Merutunga's Bhojaprabandha, (No. 450), Râjavallabha's Bhojacharitra, (No. 449), Sumatigani's Lives of certain Jaina Highpriests, (No. 426), originally forming part of his Vritti or exposition of Jinadatta's Ganadharasârdhaśataka, a Gurvâvali or succession list of teachers, (No. 427), Pârsvanâthacharitra, (No. 444), Pândavacharitra, (No. 413), Ramacharitra (No. 452), &c. In the Bhojaprabandha, Merutunga states that in Samvat 1078 when Bhoja ruled over the Mâlava circle, Bhîma, the paramount sovereign of the Chalukya race, governed Gujarat. This cannot be the date of Bhoja's accession. According both to Merutunga and Râjavallabha, Muñja, the uncle and predecessor of Bhoja,